Active Learning Activities

Past, Present & Future: A Belize Timeline

Students collaborate to create a historical timeline for a country they will soon be travelling to.

Running on Water: Activating Prior Knowledge of Static Equilibrium

Students watch, discuss, then analyze the veracity of a video in which hydrophobic shoes allow people to run on water.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Forget the Math! Draw pictures to learn the wave theory of light

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Stereochemistry Activity

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Limestone Rescue

Explosives Detective

Momentum Photoproject

Home Wiring

Interacting Objects

Problem Sorting

Problem Sorting Review